Our Fathers (film)

Our Fathers
Written by	David France (novel) Thomas Michael Donnelly
Directed by	Dan Curtis
Starring	Ted Danson Christopher Plummer Brian Dennehy Daniel Baldwin Ellen Burstyn
Theme music composer	Robert Cobert
Original language(s)	English
Cinematography	Eric Van Haren Noman
Editor(s)	Henk Van Eeghen
Release
Original network	Showtime
Original release	May 2005 (2005-05)

Our Fathers is a 2005 television film directed by Dan Curtis and starring Ted Danson, Christopher Plummer, Brian Dennehy and Ellen Burstyn. The screenplay was written by Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on a book of David France.

Principal cast

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Dennehy – lost to Paul Newman, Empire Falls)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie (Plummer – lost to Paul Newman, Empire Falls)

Best Television Film (lost to Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical)
Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film (Danson – lost to Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Elvis)
Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film (Dennehy – lost to Randy Quaid, Elvis)

Best Writing, Long Form – Adapted (Donnelly – lost to Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers)

Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

Manifestations	By country In confession Abuse by members of Catholic orders

Consequences	Parish transfers of abusive priests Financial The Role of the Church in the Causation, Treatment and Prevention of the Crisis in the Priesthood (1971) Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations (2005)

Reception	Curial Ecclesiastic Journalistic Debate over causes

Government responses	Ferns Report John Jay Report Ryan Commission Murphy Report

Activist groups	Duplessis Orphans Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Voice of the Faithful

Pre-modern	Gregorian Reform Liber Gomorrhianus

Roman Curia	Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors Ecclesiastical response to Catholic sex abuse cases

In popular culture	Judgment (1990 film) The Boys of St. Vincent (1992 miniseries) Suing the Pope (2002 documentary) Holy Water-Gate (2004 documentary) Twist of Faith (2004 documentary) Our Fathers (2005 film) Sex Crimes and the Vatican (2006 documentary) Deliver Us from Evil (2006 film) Hand of God (2006 documentary) Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012 documentary) Spotlight (2015 film) The Club (2015 film)

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Films directed by Dan Curtis

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